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Background: WAC is actively soliciting alpha testers to help out in a very early stage of testing (rough world, incomplete, unbalanced, a few bugs).

Ugh. Today's the 12th, and I'm not happy enough with the current state of WAC to start alpha testing. I hate missing deadlines, but if it's not ready, it's not ready. Perhaps next weekend will work.

For the time being I'll post some screenshots so you have an idea of where I'm at with this.

Man that's WAC! (terrible pun and play off the word whack I know) Seriously though. Nice work and good call on making a delay when you don'r feel ready rather than making a deadline when you know it's not ready. It's my first time hearing about your project and from now on I'll be following your progress. I say even if it takes you 10 years continue to keep your integrity and follow your gut instincts. And I'll be looking forward to seeing your alpha build!

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Originally posted by winter Never heard of this game. Good luck with it! (and I mean that positively)

Thanks, I'll need it. :-)

Tonight's job... rip apart the currency system and rework it. Oh the fun, it just never stops. *grin*

Have any luck with the currency rework?

Yeah, it went pretty well.

Tin, copper and silver are all like normal MMO currencies, where they show up as numbers in a small pane of the inventory sheet. Gold exists in the form of gold coin and gold bar which are stacking inventory items.

I wanted to do something different. To me the normal currency systems feel a bit too much like a credit card. I can imagine gold bars becoming the preferred currency for trading high value items. You can't use them to make payment at the auction house, so I'm hoping it will encourage person to person trading, something like barking on trade chat "WTS Enchanted Fine Etherium Chest of Body... 10 bars".

I miss trading systems like that. Even though WAC has an AH, I want to avoid having AH being the only trading. The more player to player contact the better.